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Metal mold casting

You may have seen a shiny metal object such as an automotive part or perhaps even a toy, and wondered how it was produced. Also: this could also be metal mold casting. This is an unusual technique in which melted liquid metal gets poured into a hollow shape, or mold, to create a physical 3D object that we can touch and feel. This process is simply amazing and it produces many of the things we see every day. 

Most importantly, how is a mold made. A mold works much like a container with the same shape as this final icing. It can be fabricated from materials such as sand, ceramics or metals. The mold typically contains two parts (top and bottom). These two halves nestle into each other to define the cavity within the mold in which liquid metal will reside. The Boqiao Gravity die casting machines mold must be designed well; after all, full page prints we need is to get an exact reproduction of the item. 

The Science Behind Metal Mold Casting

Ok now the fun part, heating up the metal. Metal is that it can be melted and become molten, by heating up the metal to this state at which your looks glowing liquid. Once the metal is melted, it has to be poured very carefully into a mould through a designed opening channel called sprue. The sprue is a tiny channel that the molten metal flows down to fill in the area within the mold. The molten metal that enters this space is constrained by the wall of hot, though solidifying mold. After the hot metal poured in, it hardens and begins to cool off returning into a solid. 

If the Boqiao metal cools too fast, it will grow brittle and run little risk of snapping versus when this process occurs very quickly, you can cool brittle reduces; while in low temperatures with minimal deformation being possible. In contrast, if the metal cools too slowly it may not solidify well which can also result in imperfections or issues with the end product. So, the cooling process must be controlled well to keep in consideration that we want the metal object at hand to come out as strong and useful. 

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